Why I hate COD (and Activision)...should I get Ghosts?

Okay so I have a I love hate relationship with COD...it is a fun game to play, much enjoyment to be had...satisfying kills, good game play mechanics....I have sunk in far too many hours, days and weeks...it scares me to look at my play time on each title.

It clearly is one of my favoured games....my go to title when I just want 30 minutes of mindless fun, I don't want story...I don't want anything deep and meaningful......COD is my gaming booty call.

So why do I hate it...well I can show you in 3 simple pictures:

Picture 1

Okay so that's me running along the bottom.....and there is a dude jumping off the stairs.....you'll note by his angle and where his gun is he can't hit me from there....you may also notice he has a shotgun which is a short range weapon traditionally.

Picture 2

You'll notice in this image the assailant has turned slightly towards me, but as you can see his gun and body are still not facing me and I have almost cleared the block in the middle of the picture...he is still sailing through the air at quite some distance away for that shotgun use!

Picture fuck you! just Fuck you!

Now! I don't know that much about guns....bullets....trajectory and all that except what I have learnt on CSI (not the shit ones the original before it was called Vegas) But we can all see the bad guy firing his gun right? We can all see the bullets hitting the floor at least 4-5 game feet away from my man...we can all see he is still clearly facing the wrong direction to hit my character.....so why if all the evidence points to him missing....and missing with a short range weapon I might add....can you see my gun flying through the air while I am dead....did I die of shock from the loud bang of the shotgun.....the sound of the bullets missing me and messing up the lawn?...how the fuck did I die!

I have video footage of a sniper, sniping thin air...completely empty space in theatre mode...and getting a head shot....

Who are these magical people with slow reactions that shoot about 2 seconds after you were in a space...but their time defying bullets some how travel back and kill you where you were when they should have shot you.

This game was exceptionally poor and I have more deaths than I care to go through that were all like this.....some guy was shooting a fence 6ft to my right and getting hit markers before killing me....I on the other hand unload and entire LMG clip in to some guy standing in front of me...I see him drop dead...Hazar!...only I didn't kill him....none of my bullets registered...some other guy killed him about 2 seconds after I started shooting him. People not even on my screen killed me....watch it back and they actually stepped out in front of me reloading, shot me, laid on the floor stood up and reloaded....all in the time it took me to die...yet I didn't even see them in live play.

I watched the Ghosts reveal and I was really excited by some of the new stuff that they have put in the game and I like the sound of a lot of changes and upgrades...but does any of it matter if I am going to die when people miss me, am I going to get killed by people I can't even see....am I forever going to live by the score my connection allows me to get rather than by the skill I have as a player? I play tactically, thoughtfully and catch people unaware...but still end up dead as I shoot them in the back they don't die but they hear the gun fire so turn and shoot. I have been shot by people running...so bad is the connection it hasn't even updated the animation in time....I am just dead as they run...what's the point in bothering......I might as well turn the game on search for a game and rather than waste 10 minutes of my life playing a round my score should just pop up 7-42 and then it should load the next game and so on...save us all some effort!

I enjoy the games....but I tire of complaining about this one thing...the connection and the bullshit that comes with it....when are MS and Activision going to address this ridiculousness considering each year they now top 1 billion dollars in revenue...when can I be satisfied that each death is fair and not the result of latency or lag or failure of REG.....but some servers you cheap mother fuckers and let me enjoy the game.....each year that the connection deteriorates the less I like the franchise...I bought all map packs for COD 4 and WAW.....I didn't buy any for MW2 until they were half price....I bought one for BLOPS to play zombies with my cousin....I never bought a single thing for MW3 and have bought nothing for BLOPS2....I refuse to give these bloated companies more and more money...I buy the game each year stupidly...I refuse to give them any more money....if they fix the connection issue....I might go back to giving them my money for map packs.